Weaver v. Pool’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2017
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wells v. Wells · Anders v. Sandlin · United States v. Keegan · Baird v. Howison · Clemens v. Clemens
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The `clean hand' principle has been given frequent application as disclosed by the numerous cases found cited in the note to 30 C.J.S, Equity, § 94, beginning on page 477. And in some of our own cases we have dealt extensively with this principle. Harton v. Little, 188 Ala. 640 , 65 So. 951 ; Raird v. Howison, 154 Ala. 359 , 45 So. 668 ; Anders v. Sandlin, 191 Ala. 158 , 67 So. 684 . The authorities disclose that the maxim refers to willful misconduct rather than merely negligent misconduct and must be morally reprehensible as to known facts. Furthermore, equity will consider the conduct of the adversary, the requirements of public policy and the relation of the misconduct to the subject matter of the suit and to defendant. 30 C.J.S., Equity, § 98. * * *" Weaver v. Pool, 249 Ala. 644, 648 , 32 So.2d 765, 768 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thagard v. Brock
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.